Noah Pozner’s Burial Permit

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This one’s a tad bit late as it actually originates with a comment left all the way back in January. There’s no good reason for the delay in bringing it to the front page, I’ve just been very lazy. Sorry! Anyway, Stew writes:

Sir, can you completely debunk the latest nonsense Fetzer’s peddling here: https://jamesfetzer.org/2019/12/alison-sunny-maynard-j-d-sandy-hook-no-burial-for-the-dead-boy/

Sir? How fancy! Assuredly undeserved but thank you, Stew!

For those of you who would rather not subject yourselves to Jimmy Fetzer’s putrid site, I’ll summarize the nonsense in question:

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Sandy Hook Elementary Was Open, Part Sixteen: School Documents From 2008-2012

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In what is likely to be my final entry in this series—after nearly seven years, I can’t imagine there’s much more to uncover—I will share various documents that demonstrate Sandy Hook Elementary School’s continuous operation between 2008 and 2012. While some documents have appeared on the site, the majority have not, as they never quite fit elsewhere. I’ve opted not to include nearly one hundred issues of the Sandy Hook Connection newsletter due to the personal information contained within, such as the names and email addresses of teachers and volunteers. Large files that may cause performance issues with your browser will be linked for download instead of being embedded, and sources will be provided when possible.

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Was Gene Rosen Identified As An Official FEMA Employee?

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While Jim Fetzer has been thoroughly exposed as a shameless fraud more times than anyone cares to count, folks will still occasionally ask me to look into one of his many outrageous lies regarding Sandy Hook. And while I really have to wonder why anyone bothers to pay the guy any mind these days, I’ll always make an effort to accommodate such requests as it is yet another opportunity to demonstrate what a total nitwit the guy is.

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Did Danbury Hospital Post About The Sandy Hook Shooting 48 Minutes Before The First 911 Call?

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Late last week, our old pal Jimmy Fetzer made the bizarre decision to resurrect a particularly birdbrained claim first published on Maria Hsia Chang’s reprehensible”Fellowship of the Minds” back in January of last year. This claim, like many before it, originates with professional con man Wolfgang Halbig and posits that Danbury Hospital posted about the Sandy Hook shooting a full forty-eight minutes before the first 911 call had been received by Newtown Police, proving once and for all (for real this time!) that the event never happened and that Danbury Hospital – like literally everyone else on the planet, save for Wolfgang Halbig at this point – was “in on it”. This is, predictably, absolute hooey.

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Wolfgang Halbig’s Complicated Relationship With Exif Data

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In addition to being a bit of a moron, Wolfgang Halbig is also roughly a thousand years old, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that he struggles with even the most basic technology. So when he attached the following image…

…to an email regarding his Chalk Hill shenanigans, I had a few immediate thoughts/questions:

  1. What in the hell does this have to do with Chalk Hill?
  2. How in the world does this prove that Lenny Pozner is a “fictitious character”?
  3. Of course Wolfgang Halbig does not understand Exif data.
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Sandy Hook Students Were Not Moved To Chalk Hill Prior To January, 2013

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In spite of exposing himself as a desperate charlatan at every possible turn, a shocking number of people (i.e. more than zero) continue to give the outlandish claims of perennial wannabe Wolfgang Halbig the kind of reverence they’ve never deserved. Take for example one of his more recent tall tales: that all 456 students enrolled at Sandy Hook Elementary School for 2012-2013 were actually attending school one town over, at the site of the former Chalk Hill Middle School in Monroe, CT on December 14th, 2012 (rather than starting in January of 2013). Therefore, at least according to him, the shooting couldn’t possibly have occurred as there were no children or educators physically located at Sandy Hook. Unsurprisingly, Halbig has thus far failed to explain how this new theory fits in with his previous allegation that the school was permanently closed in 2008 as Chalk Hill was still in use (at least as a school; it continued to house the Monroe Parks and Recreation department as well as Monroe Early Learning Center) by Monroe township up until 2011. Of course this isn’t all that shocking as weaving his fever dreams into any kind of cohesive narrative has never been the guy’s strong suit.

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Did Sandy Hook Parent David Wheeler Play An FBI Agent On December 14th, 2012?

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“Congratulations, you found two middle-aged, jowly, white guys in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Remarkable!” – David Wheeler, CBS News interview, September 23, 2018

Choosing the most batshit insane component of the thoroughly preposterous and downright repulsive Sandy Hook hoax theory is a challenge for any sane, rational person. The options are endless, and they’re all so, so dumb. Here are just a couple of highlights:

  • It was a real shooting, but carried out by “Mossad death squads.” This gem comes courtesy of Nobody Died At Sandy Hook author James Fetzer, who originally floated the idea in an article on the Russian propaganda site Veterans Today. Fetzer later abandoned the theory—probably because it wasn’t outrageous enough to stretch into a full-length book.
  • Adam Lanza never existed, and all photos of him are just doctored images of H.P. Lovecraft. I swear I’m not making that up. You can Google it if you don’t believe me.

For me, though, the clear winner in this competition of lunacy is the profoundly stupid claim that some of the victims—or, as the theory goes, the child actors who played them (before conveniently disappearing forever)—magically aged five years in two months to perform alongside Jennifer Hudson at Super Bowl XLVII. Top to bottom, it’s bonkers. But coming in at a close second is another absurdity, equally riddled with logical gaps large enough to drive a couple of bucket-wheel excavators through: the claim that David Wheeler, father of six-year-old victim Benjamin Wheeler, played the dual roles of grieving father and FBI Special Agent on the day of the shooting.

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Did Any Of The Children Killed At Sandy Hook Appear At Super Bowl XLVII?

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The claim that no one died at Sandy Hook School on December 14, 2012, and that it was all just a “drill,” is a logistical nightmare of epic proportions—most of which conspiracy theorists conveniently hand-wave away. However, one particularly ludicrous issue they’ve tried to “solve” is this: What happened to the twenty young victims? Where did they go? If they’re all still alive, why hasn’t anyone seen them in the nearly six years since the shooting?

Enter the Super Bowl XLVII theory, where these geniuses confidently assert that the victims weren’t just hidden away but actually performed at the largest sporting event in the United States—as part of a children’s choir with Jennifer Hudson. Yes, really.

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Debunking The Claim That I’m Using “Photoshopped” Photos

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Reader Patrick Lange left the following comment on my “Debunking Claims Made About The Child Victims Of Sandy Hook” entry:

Hey, I am no photoshop expert. Hoaxer claimed that the one with the family standing in front of the christmas tree is photoshopped. I gave him this link in an argument, but he gave me this picture. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSwSaV4VQAIRvP6.jpg

He told me “Inconsistent error level. Some areas as bright and even brighter than the shopped on circle. Other areas abnormally dark. Shopped Photo” Can you please explain this?

I’m happy to explain, despite the fact that the clown making these claims couldn’t be bothered. But seeing as how they’re clearly talking out of their ass, I can’t say I really blame them for keeping it so short. They want you to believe that any bright color in an error level analysis means that a photo, as a whole, has been manipulated (beyond the simple addition of the circle), and is therefore fraudulent. That’s not only an overly simplistic of how ELA works, but it’s just not true.

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